"If Your Majesty kills me because I am cowardly and unable to do my job, and because I govern leniently, it will definitely go against his ambition to be a wise and benevolent ruler!"
After Zhang Siwei, the reformist minister Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was impeached, he told Zhang Sijiao at home that he had become the chief assistant in accordance with the emperor's intention.
"That's what my brother said!"
Zhang Sijiao nodded and said with a smile: "Your Majesty must have begun to regret letting brother Jin be the leader!"
Zhang Siwei chuckled and said, "Unless he refuses to let Jiang Ling enjoy the Ancestral Temple, I can only let Wei brother be the chief minister at that time!"
"If you want to stop Junfu, you have to seduce Junfu with this kind of bait that Junfu can't refuse, so that he has no choice!"
"Then it will still be Yan Guan who will set up the stage and sing in the front, and my brother will only be responsible for studying Li Xinghua (Li Shichun) in the first and assistant position?"
Zhang Sijiao looked at Zhang Siwei and asked.
Zhang Siwei nodded: "Eating plain meals with corpses is sometimes an attitude!"
"That's what my brother said!"
"But brother, it's better to resign as soon as possible, so as not to be too deeply jealous by His Majesty!"
Zhang Sijiao said.
Zhang Siwei said solemnly: "As long as he is willing to implement a lenient policy and abolish the Jiangling system, my brother will know his own interests and leave without disturbing his eyes!"
"Even if he wants to find someone like Yan Fenyi who will let him go and let him be an emperor as he wants, it doesn't matter!"
"Even if he is so selfish that he takes all the people's wealth in the world and wants to be extravagant and lustful, I will not have any objection as a brother, and I will praise and appreciate his kindness!"
"Instead of actually becoming emperor according to Jiang Ling's last wish!"
In front of his brother, Zhang Siwei told his true request for Zhu Yijun.
"Where are they in Shenwu County?"
"Will they restore the power of Gangneung after their brother leaves or is deposed in the future?"
Zhang Sijiao asked at this time.
Zhang Siwei sneered: "They in Shenwu County are as bold as Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, but let them resume the government of Jiangling, force the world's right-wingers to pay more taxes, and spit out the hidden fields that are scattered and deceitful." , They don’t have the courage! My brother is a coward, so why aren’t they cowards?”
After hearing this, Zhang Sijiao nodded and smiled proudly: "No wonder they in Shenwu County went to Shu to retain my brother. I'm afraid they also wanted to use his brother's hand to abolish the New Deal. For them, who want the emperor and courtiers to work together, if It would not be a bad thing if His Majesty is not allowed to insist on Jiangling’s system.”
"That's exactly what it means!"
"Except for the emperor who was taught by Jiangling to be the king of Yao and Shun, and who insisted on insisting that Jiangling's people should perish but his government should not be destroyed, no one really wanted to adhere to Jiangling's idea of restructuring, and no one wanted to continue to be in trouble and only wanted to be beautiful. Bureaucrats all over the world who share common ground."
Zhang Siwei nodded and started talking.
"Without a Yuanfu like Jiang Ling to handle the daily chores for him, the emperor probably won't be able to hold on for long. At least the six departments can't stand it now!"
"There are so many suggestions to discuss decisions and come up with plans without delay. For the ministries that only have one Shangshu and two ministers, and each department has only one minister, it is tantamount to exhausting them to death or forcing them to resign. "
"This dynasty has too few officials and many officials. It is suitable for lenient administration and inaction, but not for strict investigation and punishment."
Zhang Sijiao continued to say with a smile.
"That's right!"
Zhang Siwei couldn't help but put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "Unless the emperor can be like Taizu, he would rather exhaust himself to death than be lenient to the government!"
"Now that the winter solstice has passed, I have to go back to Yangzhou!"
"But regarding the salt administration, can I also ask my brother to find someone to impeach him, Haigangfeng?"
"This person has always been the governor of Nanzhi. It's like the Zaohu merchants of Lianghuai Salt Industry have a backer, which has caused a lot of losses to the Zaohu salt merchants who work for us."
Zhang Sijiao asked about Zhang Siwei.
Zhang Siwei lowered his face and nodded.
Zhang Sijiao was overjoyed and immediately boarded the ship to Tongzhou the next day.
He did not plan to contact officials in the northern capital to impeach Hai Rui. After all, there were too many imperial guards in the northern capital, so he planned to go to the southern capital to contact officials from the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate and Nanjing Sixth Section to impeach Hai Rui.
For this reason, when Zhang Sijiao was resting in Linqingzhou, an important canal town, he went ashore to a bank and withdrew 50,000 taels of cash, preparing to go to Nandu to do some business.
But Zhang Sijiao was just preparing to go ashore that day, and when he was telling the people carrying the silver boxes to be careful, he saw a large group of Jinyi guards surrounding him.
Zhang Sijiao was shocked when he saw this.
But Zhang Sijiao reacted quickly and hurriedly ordered Zhang Xiu, the head of his servants: "Take a few people and jump into the water and leave quickly. Go back to the capital and tell the uncle that our Zhang family is being targeted by the Jin Yiwei!"
Then, Zhang Sijiao ordered Zhang Min, the boss of his other clan: "Take a few people to the gangs at Chaoguan in Linqing to ask for reinforcements!"
Zhang Xiu and Zhang Min both nodded in agreement, and then led people to run away from various places.
Among them, Zhang Xiu took five people from the Zhang family and ran toward the canal. As soon as they reached the canal, he shouted: "Jump!"
But at this time, twenty or thirty swimming guards suddenly appeared in the canal, and they all held crossbows. It didn't take long for them to turn on the weapons and start shooting at these Zhang family servants.
"ah!"
Several servants led by Zhang Xiu were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
He himself was hit by arrows in the abdomen and thigh and fell to the ground. Then he watched helplessly as the Jin Yiwei who came ashore pulled out a short knife and put the knife against his throat. The Jin Yiwei took out the golden sore medicine to heal his wounds.
At the same time, Zhang Min was also blocked by the Jin Yiwei who suddenly appeared from the warehouses around the dock.
Whizzing!
When a row of crossbow arrows came over, Zhang Min and others also fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Zhang Sijiao's face became even more ugly.
"Second Master, these royal guards are obviously well prepared. We should have been targeted a long time ago."
"Perhaps we still underestimated the emperor who grew up in the palace. Zhang Jiangling probably didn't teach him to use his critics more often and less his hawks and dogs."
"Besides, the money we gave Zhang Jing probably didn't go to any use!"
Qiu Li, the disciple next to Zhang Sijiao, started talking.
Zhang Sijiao gnashed his teeth and said, "Damn it, this piece of shit Zhang Jing only takes money and does not do anything for human beings. Sooner or later he will be cut to pieces by a thousand knives!"
"ah!"
Not long after, Lu Qiancheng, the prison manager of Dongchang, strode toward Zhang Sijiao with a knife in his waist.
At the same time, the imperial guard who followed him drew his sword and stabbed the attendants Zhang Siwei brought to the ground one by one.
Screams came out one after another.
Zhang Sijiao had too many followers, and the Dongchang Jinyiwei were worried about leaking secrets. People knew that Zhang Sijiao was caught in advance and were prepared, so they simply killed a group of ordinary wealthy slaves who could not know the core secrets of the Zhang family. Kill some people first.
The struggle for power and interests within the ruling class will inevitably be so cruel in many cases.
And since you surrender to the powerful and want others to be slaves and avoid taxes and labor, you must be mentally prepared to be killed for no reason.
Zhang Sijiao watched helplessly as his slaves fell one after another, and the blood gradually flowed out from the bodies of these fallen slaves, gradually collecting into blood porridge, and these Jinyi guards stepped through the bloody porridge of these corpses as if nothing had happened. , and swallowed hard a few times, and then had to soften his knees and kneel down:
"Excuse me, sir, what did the student do that made the sergeants bother to come here!"
Lu Qiancheng shook off Yi Sa, squatted down with the knife, looked at Zhang Sijiao and said with a smile:
"We are the members of the team that specializes in the excavation of the tomb of Yuci in Fusi, Beizhen. According to Yu Xiaolian, the owner of Yongchang Trading Company in Wuchang, Huguang, the initiator of the excavation of the tomb of Yuci was not Xu Huating, but Mr. Zhang, who made people imitate him. Xu Jie's maid Huixiang also admitted that you had indeed been to the Xu family, and she even slept with you. She even knew that you had a palm-sized birthmark on your butt, and she also obtained Xu Jie's private seal through it. .So now I have to come and get you.”
Lu Qiancheng took out the driving sticker and said, "See for yourself, this is a criminal driving sticker!"
Zhang Sijiao hurriedly raised his head with a horrified look on his face.
At this time, Lu Qiancheng smiled and said: "It's not just you who can bribe the Sixth Section, we factory guards also have our own people in the Sixth Section."
"I didn't expect that His Majesty would be so concerned about this matter!"
"It's just that Xu Jie has become the culprit and should be dismissed. Why do you factory guards want to investigate again?"
Zhang Sijiao asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Lu Qiancheng said: "Ask the superiors about this!"
